Message from Peter Stubley
Thanks for taking a look at my work. I have been taking photos for about 20 years, mostly in black & white at the beginning. For a long time, my favorite camera was a beat up M3 almost the same age as me, and I learned most of what I know now with the help of Ansel Adam's books. I went digital, but was never really happy until affordable dSLRs came along. These days, I use mostly Nikon (currently a D200), and a not-beat-up-yet M8 (which is definitely a luxury, but it has sentimental attachments to my old M3). My main interests remain portraits (which I don't do often enough to be really good at) and underwater photography. One of my goals for this year is to get good at black & white conversions -- apparently "convert to grayscale in Photoshop" is not the best way ;) I have learned a lot about photography over the years, but one of the things I have learned is that there remain many people whose work leaves me in awe -- I am constantly learning from all of you.
What always strikes me most about great photographs and what I strive for is the sense of light. I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that, but I know it when I see it. The closest explanation that I can come up with is the difference between a b&w photo that is gray on gray, versus one that uses the full tonal range.
The other thing about me is that I love to teach, and pass on what I have figured out. What I know may not be useful to everybody, but I am always happy to pass it on.
Thanks in advance for any comments -- they are always appreciated. And please sign my guestbook if you have a minute.
My 3 main rules for photography:
1. Film is cheap so take lots of pictures (even truer now in the digital age).
2. The garbage pail is your friend. Just because you took it doesn't mean someone else has to see it, so no one else ever has to know about the 2000 other versions that did not work.
3. To take good photos, you need a camera. To take great photos, you need a darkroom (these days Photoshop, or your favorite digital darkroom). Processing of the initial capture to get to the fine image has always been part of the process.
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